How We Began To Heal Our Farm Through Sustainable Agriculture | Sustainable Living

[@stephaniehenderson6631]

Fantastic work going on over there in the Australian Bruderhof community, showing the way to go to heal our lands. Well done and God bless you and keep you all.

[@matildaswaltz]

Please read "Dark Emu" by Bruce Pascoe (also "The Largest Estate on Earth" by Bill Gammage) to understand better what was done to the Australian landscape in such a short time from 1788. God's Earth needs our love and I am so thankful that a Bruderhof is here doing God's work.

[@kristiarcher1106]

This was well put together and informative. This subject interest me and I love that we can heal the land.

[@ruthlaurie-hopper3489]

This guy knows what he's talking about.

[@ah5721]

What they are doing is amazing!!Polyface farms does the manged intensive grazing and grazing! Have y'all thought about running the chickens after the cows to debug and scratchup the manure?

[@Bruderhof]

We love what Polyface farm does. We do some of what they do.

[@UnPoquitoDeSal]

You make me want to do the same! This was very interesting and inspiring.

[@nomadgigi4051]

Very clear informative explanation, I'm very interested in this type of land management. It restores the soil and nature beautifully.

[@michaelgibbs3147]

Where is Melinda (smh)??? Very informative video; how he managed that accumulation rate of soil is pretty amazing!

[@sandra4395]

So, very, interesting... We have destroyed this planet and it is such a shame. Glad to see communities doing their part in replenishing more of what this earth needs...

[@soulwam]

✝very informative, helpful and inspiring ! Well done on your work !

[@staceyjensen4071]

I am trying to do this on the small piece of land we live on. We are in the high desert and the soil is awful, not to mention the constant struggle with the lack of water. Thank you for the information, I think we all need to try and do what we can to be sustainable and bring back the good soil to our beautiful land.

[@Bruderhof]

Good luck with that. It's worth it!

[@normanshadow1]

It makes sense! This IS the way the Creator planned it.

[@eribo1380]

indeed amazing

[@robthorburn3626]

Hello, all my good wishes and respect to Johannes Meier and the Danthonia Bruderhof. I am hoping that their farm has not been directly affected by the fires. I am no farmer, completely ignorant about agriculture, but I came across this livestock management approach and its game-changing on a TED talk by the Zimbabwean advocate and then heard the Australian rancher of apparent integrity and intellect who has been practicing the techniques and developing them on his own ranch, and wrote such a fat book about it that I was galled to read it! Song of the Reed Warbler? Some such name. I am aware that you advocates of this farming approach have been almost persecuted for it by the agricultural establishment (and agrochemicals interest parties?), but have been winning the fundamentals of your argument incrementally, by your patient results. A bit of persecution is nothing new for Bruderhof people, eh? The Danthonia community's decades-long thinking is courageous, in our short-term-results paradigm, if that is the right word. It was fascinating to hear Mr Meier's description of the three other elements of soil regeneration. I am aware of the massive potential for CO2 sequestration in your grasslands regeneration methods. I loved the mind picture of the unconventionally "untidy" multi-crop fields.

[@El_Croc]

Is there any sign of neighbouring properties adopting the same methods so that all of them can benefit from returning quality and productivity?

[@Bruderhof]

We've had many farmers and interested folks visit. Helpful for all of us to learn from one another.

[@El_Croc]

@@Bruderhof Good to read that. If the surrounding landscape can be regenerated too then the whole area's water reservoir should grow and become more resilient. Fantastic work you've done down there.

[@DarianBTaylor]

I was confused by his example of Arizona, which in most part, has always been a desert climate. Maybe a different example would have helped.

[@happytraveller8953]

Ooooohhh; the folks at ConAgra are NOT gonna be happy to hear this...sadly, it's all about conglomeration, amalgamation and profit and the hell with diversity for Big Agriculture...

[@isang4432]

If big agra-industry was smart, they would adopt some of these principles.